Andre Ward offers Marco Antonio Periban a HBO-televised fight

[firstborn]

oh come on, have you no sense of humor?

but all jokes aside, I hope you didnt pay for your tickets. Everyone knew they were going to have to paper the house.......

My bad, I've been drinking a little. Tickets weren't expensive, it was the price for parking and beer that bugged me. Next time I'll wait until the week of the fight to buy tickets!!

[OnePunch]

My bad, I've been drinking a little. Tickets weren't expensive, it was the price for parking and beer that bugged me. Next time I'll wait until the week of the fight to buy tickets!!

most times when an out of town company like Roc comes into a city like Oakland they will hire a local promoter to handle all the ground logistics, maybe get a few local ticket sellers on the undercard, stuff like that. If they do, when the show is announced reach out to that local promoter and let them know that if they are going to do any papering to let you know because you have a large group of people you could bring. Believe me when a house needs to be papered, they want to do it 50 or 100 seats at a time if possible, and not 2 seats here, 3 there, etc......

I worked for Gary Shaw handling all the local stuff for Tarver-Woods in Tampa on Showtime, and I probably papered close to 3,000 seats for Gary, just to make it look good on TV. 100 to the Boys Club, 200 to Tampa Fire Dept, 200 to the YMCA, etc etc

[firstborn]

most times when an out of town company like Roc comes into a city like Oakland they will hire a local promoter to handle all the ground logistics, maybe get a few local ticket sellers on the undercard, stuff like that. If they do, when the show is announced reach out to that local promoter and let them know that if they are going to do any papering to let you know because you have a large group of people you could bring. Believe me when a house needs to be papered, they want to do it 50 or 100 seats at a time if possible, and not 2 seats here, 3 there, etc......

I worked for Gary Shaw handling all the local stuff for Tarver-Woods in Tampa on Showtime, and I probably papered close to 3,000 seats for Gary, just to make it look good on TV. 100 to the Boys Club, 200 to Tampa Fire Dept, 200 to the YMCA, etc etc

Great info, thanks!

[OnePunch]

Great info, thanks!

one thing I would add is that you will want to say your group is sports fans, but not necessarily boxing fans. Like maybe your dart league, or softball team, fantasy football league, stuff like that, people you want to expose to a big fight. If they think its people who are already Andre Ward fans they might figure they're going to buy tickets anyways so why give you any freebies lol

[Scipio2009]

But Sullivan Barrera has a much more fan-friendly style than Andre Ward.

Have you ever seen Barrera fight?

But Sullivan has never had the media hype Ward receives from the likes of Max Kellerman, because he's from another country.

Using hype to fool someone into watching a Ward fight should be illegal, because seeing Andre clamp, clinch and grapple is a form of psychological torture. The person will likely never watch a boxing match again.

Again avoiding my question lets me further know that the Florida venues that Barrera fought were likely 500-seaters, that likely weren't even half-filled.

Ward-Smith, Ward-Dawson, Ward-Froch, and Kessler-Ward, of Ward's notable TV fights, were all exciting fights; again, you're likely talking about fights that you haven't even watched.

Glad to see how you've tried to quietly change your story from "OMG, Kovalev-Barrera is going to trump anything that Ward has ever done" to "Barrera isn't known because no one is pushing him, therefore asking about how he draws isn't worth acknowledging".

lol

[Santa_]

Ward couldn't find a Light Heavyweight to fight? How many soft touches does he need?

[Scipio2009]

for that fight they had to do a deal where you got a free large pizza and 12 garlic knots if you took 10 free fight tickets and promised to bring 9 friends with you.

You know that that isn't the truth, but you continue to try and push that ******ity anyway.

Ward-Smith, if folks are being honest about it, likely comped 2k tickets of the 10k people who actually came to see the fight (through various discounts or just straight-up giveaways).

The fact that you still call yourself a "promoter" is hilarious.

[Pigeons]

most times when an out of town company like Roc comes into a city like Oakland they will hire a local promoter to handle all the ground logistics, maybe get a few local ticket sellers on the undercard, stuff like that. If they do, when the show is announced reach out to that local promoter and let them know that if they are going to do any papering to let you know because you have a large group of people you could bring. Believe me when a house needs to be papered, they want to do it 50 or 100 seats at a time if possible, and not 2 seats here, 3 there, etc......

I worked for Gary Shaw handling all the local stuff for Tarver-Woods in Tampa on Showtime, and I probably papered close to 3,000 seats for Gary, just to make it look good on TV. 100 to the Boys Club, 200 to Tampa Fire Dept, 200 to the YMCA, etc etc

Oh Terry. Taking advantage of Americans until 2011. If you're gonna be in the building for Ward-Kovalev 2016, I'd love to meet you. I was gonna buy PPV, but this is a fight I have to make the drive for. I did 7 hours on the road for Crawford-Beltran, so I have made the decision to be in the building for Ward-Kovalev. Let me know, you baller, you high spender you!

[OnePunch]

Oh Terry. Taking advantage of Americans until 2011. If you're gonna be in the building for Ward-Kovalev 2016, I'd love to meet you. I was gonna buy PPV, but this is a fight I have to make the drive for. I did 7 hours on the road for Crawford-Beltran, so I have made the decision to be in the building for Ward-Kovalev. Let me know, you baller, you high spender you!

you couldnt pay me to attend a Ward fight, but I will certainly watch that one on tv.

I will however be at Canelo-GGG if it happens. Feel free to look me up. I will let you buy me a drink to make up for all the ****** posts you made me read over the years :-)

[The Hammer]

Again avoiding my question lets me further know that the Florida venues that Barrera fought were likely 500-seaters, that likely weren't even half-filled.

Ward-Smith, Ward-Dawson, Ward-Froch, and Kessler-Ward, of Ward's notable TV fights, were all exciting fights; again, you're likely talking about fights that you haven't even watched.

None of Ward's fights were exciting.

I suffered through Ward-Kessler (Ward should have been DQed) and Ward-Froch. Ward-Dawson was sickening, because poor Chad wasn't much more than a corpse from the weight-draining.

I watched Ward-Miranda, Ward-Bika (referee helped Ward, repeatedly admonishing Bika for fouling while letting Ward use whatever illegal tactics he wanted) Ward-Abraham (Ward used deliberate head butts and clinching) and Ward-Green, during which Ward should have been DQed for excessive holding and repeatedly clamping Green's arms.

I watched Ward-Rodriguez, the shady Jack Reiss was on Ward's side (although to save face, he deducted points from both when Rodriguez retaliated a bit to Ward's dirty tactics).

I didn't bother to watch all of Ward-Smith. In the parts I did watch, Ward was clinching and and clamping like always, even against such an overmatched opponent.

Highlights of Ward-Kessler: